Questioning Bernie’s praise of Cuban health stats
Are they ‘fake news’? Senator Bernie Sanders again got into hot water this week with careless remarks about Cuba. "It's unfair to simply say everything...
Making Alabama men share the burden of reproductive rights restrictions
A bill would mandate vasectomies This news from the “weird and wonderful” department comes from Alabama. First, the backstory. Last year its legislature passed a...
How is the law going to deal with child sex robots?
A tricky question for libertarians The sex technology industry was estimated to be worth US$30 billion in 2018. Sex robots, human-looking devices created for sexual...
China to crack down on violence against doctors and nurses
‘A serious, ubiquitous, and persistent social problem,’ say experts A female doctor, Yang Wen, was stabbed to death at Beijing Civil Aviation General Hospital on...
Demography still on the political agenda
Bernie Sanders stirs up a hornets’ nest Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash Population policy was in the headlines around the world this week. US Senator Bernie Sanders,...
Junk food will make you blind!!!!
A parable of media hype Photo by Miguel Andrade on Unsplash The headline in the sober pages of the Annals of Internal Medicine was irresistible clickbait: “Blindness Caused...
‘Contraceptive revolution’ needed to curb population growth
NEJM features plea for more funding A leading fertility researcher has called for “a new contraceptive revolution” in the New England Journal of Medicine. Deborah...
‘The Lancet’ makes firm commitment to gender balance
All events, panels and board will have at least 50% women The leading medical journal The Lancet is fulfilling its commitment to diversity and inclusion...
50 years after Stonewall, we can’t ignore transgender health, says bioethicist
Nature strongly backs LGBTQI+ rights June was a month of “pride” for the LGBTQI+ community. But the co-editor of the blog of the American Journal...
Climate change analysis needs bioethicists
The Hastings Center convenes a seminar on “the greatest moral challenge of our time” With climate change often described as the greatest moral challenge of...
Our greying planet
A new UN population projection is lower than previous estimates Population growth can have an impact on controversial bioethical issues like abortion, contraception, aged care...
In times of climate crisis, how many children should you have?
None, according to several philosophers“There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg...